* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “It made me very happy when so many of the boys around town stopped by to tell me goodbye before leaving for college.” Rhada Hutton: “I can tell you one thing, the cooler weather has had no effect on the mosquitoes out at the dam.”

* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: “My hands are beginning to lose their garden look and getting to look like city hands again.” Trooper Bob Norton: “The trouble is too many people think highway signs are something for other people to observe.” Summer Southard: “My dad is making jelly now out of guest what? Well, it’s prickly pears.”

* And So They Say: Gene Miller: The worst thing about the Fair is getting caught up the next week.” Char Ostmeyer (washing big fair picture off the Implement Company window): “And this is what I get a college degree for!” Everybody: “Butch Ostmeyer certainly deserves a lot of credit for this year’s wonderful fair.”

* And So They Say: Judge at the Fair: “ I KNOW now that this is the biggest county fair in Kansas.” Lee Phelps: “Butch Ostmeyer got most of the rain he wanted before the Fair. I guess some folks just pray better than others.” Viola Paulson: “I got my fishing license and right away caught a five-pound fish.”

* And So They Say: Ig Gross: “I guess the reason I cannot make any money is because I am so honest.” Eloise Webster: “Yes, I rode a motorbike while in Bermuda and I have got the scars to prove it.” Freddie Baughman: “Well, I can tell you one thing, a week off from work is certainly exhausting.”

* And So They Say: Harry Butler: “I could fill a book with what I do not know.” Ed Riffel: “I think I am the oldest man in Lanark Township.” Butch Ostmeyer: “I hope the people will make their fair entries early. It helps a lot.” Ray Bigge: “They say that the grass is always greener in the other person’s pasture. Well, the peaches are always riper in my neighbor’s yard.”

* And So They Say: Chuck Reed: “If it rains, I hope I get the credit because I have one ordered.” Spec Dillingham: “You don’t know much about buying a watermelon if you plunk it to see if it is ripe. I read that in the Kansas City Star.” Harry Butler: “I’m glad you didn’t hear what I just said about the raise in Blue Cross/Blue Shield rates. It wouldn’t be fit to print.”

* And So They Say: C. R. Scott: “Did my wife tell you I washed all the dishes after her party the other night?” Vernie Degenhardt: “We were just unlucky on our Colorado trip. We got home just before the big rain that washed out some of the highways so we had no excuse to stay longer.” Leonard Dix,” I would have enjoyed the 105-degree day during harvest—but it came a little late.”

* And So They Say: Lionel Carter: “I will tell you what they ought to have here—a streetcar line out to the Webster Reservoir.” Pudy Larson: “This is sure a nice, calm day, but if I were setting out to go fishing, the darn wind would come up and blow like the devil.” Chuck Waller: “I never saw the Reservoir as smooth as it was Sunday morning, It was just like glass, and I am not kidding.”

* And So They Say: Kerry McCue: “You guessed wrong. You said in the paper I’m nine years old and I’m seven.” Virgil Olson: “We flew from Los Angeles to Denver in one hour and forty minutes. Doesn’t seem possible.” Mrs. Ruth Marshall: “I’m going on all six this week, and I only have four cylinders.”